Stan Toler Collection (6 vols.)

by Stan Toler; Linda Toler

Publisher:

WPH

, 2007–2009

Overview

Stan Toler is the pastor’s pastor. For years, he has not only pastored churches, but he has written books and developed resources for fellow pastors. Whether you’re a solo pastor in a small church, or a pastor in a large church with a large staff and complex ministry program, Stan Toler addresses the issues you face.

The 6-volume Stan Toler Collection offers rich insight and generous affirmation which will enlighten, encourage, and equip anyone involved in church ministry. Stan Toler helps you create the positive purpose, clear focus, and effective decision-making skills that will improve the quality of your ministry and your relationships with the people you work with. From how-to guides for leading church staffs—both large and small—to devotional guides for pastors and ministry couples, the Stan Toler Collection contains resources for every area of ministry, and provides practical advice to help you become a vibrant and effective ministry leader.

The Logos Bible Software edition of the Stan Toler Collection is specially designed for pastors and church leaders. From advanced search features, to detailed tagging and linking to the Bibles and other books in your digital library, Logos gives you the tools you need to be an effective ministry leader.

Key Features

• Devotions and reflections for pastors and ministry couples
• Practical ideas to encourage and revitalize your pastoral heart and your church’s ministry teams
• Links to the Bibles and reference books in your digital library that you own

Product Details

• Title: Stan Toler Collection
• Author: Stan Toler
• Publisher: Wesleyan Publishing House
• Volumes: 6
• Pages: 1,195

ReThink Your Life: A Unique Diet to Renew Your Mind

• Publisher: Wesleyan Publishing House
• Publication Date: 2008
• Pages: 256

Sample Pages: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7

Every day you are bombarded by messages that implant themselves into your mind and influence your thinking. Thoughts become actions and actions become habits, so gaining control of your thoughts is the critical first step in making positive life changes.

That's why the apostle Paul urged us to bring all our thoughts into captivity and to abandon the practice of conforming the way we think to the low level of the world around us. Instead, we should be transformed—by the renewing of our minds!

Best-selling author Stan Toler outlines the practical steps to rid your mind of destructive thinking and create the positive purpose, clear focus, and effective decision-making that will improve the total quality of your life.

This book will help you:

• Cleanse your mind of harmful thinking
• Audit your core beliefs and life values
• Renovate your outlook with fresh ideas and attitudes
• Create a sustainable plan to replenish and rejuvenate your thought life.

This unique book will lead you to genuine life change through the most basic Christian discipline—renewing the mind.

Stan Toler's Practical Guide to Pastoral Ministry

• Publisher: Wesleyan Publishing House
• Publication Date: 2008
• Pages: 300

Sample Pages: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7

Twenty-first-century ministry is a construction zone, and pastors must continually assess the road ahead and avoid destructive barriers to lead effectively. Stan Toler, America's pastor to pastors, offers rich insight and generous affirmation that will enlighten, encourage, and equip anyone involved in local church ministry.

Based on more than thirty years of leading healthy, growing churches, Stan offers practical advice on 75 ministry topics covering every aspect of ministry from personal growth to effective leadership.

You'll learn to:

• Lead and effective ministry team
• Cast a faith-inspired vision
• Manage risk successfully
• Thrive amid adversity
• Improve your pulpit communication
• Minister effectively through weddings and funerals
• Create an atmosphere of affirmation in your home
• Recruit and retain top volunteers
• Fund your vision for the local church
• Keep yourself and your church on the cutting edge

Make Stan Toler your ministry mentor and learn from one of the nation's most reputable senior pastors.

Stan Toler's Practical Guide to Solo Ministry

• Publisher: Wesleyan Publishing House
• Publication Date: 2008
• Pages: 192

Sample Pages: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7

The solo pastor must be a true generalist, skilled in organizational management, leadership, volunteer recruitment, pastoral care, Bible interpretation, worship leadership, and preaching. With warmth and wisdom, Stan offers practical advice for the pastor whose staff meeting is held in the mirror.

Subjects included:

• Spiritual leadership
• Organizational management
• Organizing a lay workforce
• Basic church finances
• Effective communication
• Personal life

Devotions for Pastors

• Publisher: Wesleyan Publishing House
• Publication Date: 2008
• Pages: 128

Sample Pages: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7

Life for a pastor implies living "in a fishbowl," which can bring unique challenges. While pastors are meeting the spiritual needs of others, their own spiritual needs must be met as well. In Devotions for Pastors, veteran "pastor to pastors" Stan Toler brings together a blend of affirmation, scriptural reflection, and quotations from Christian authors which provide the spiritual support pastors need to continue strong in their positions and faith.

In this book, Toler offers spiritual wisdom on subjects including:

• Faith
• Encouragement
• Passion
• Vision
• Perseverance
• Integrity
• Victory

Devotions for Pastors presents inspiration, affirmation, and encouragement on the front lines of ministry, strengthening the spiritual lives of the care-takers of God's Church.

Devotions for Ministry Couples

• Authors: Stan Toler and Linda Toler
• Publisher: Wesleyan Publishing House
• Publication Date: 2008
• Pages: 128

Sample Pages: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7

Having served in ministry together for over thirty years, Stan and Linda Toler are able to speak with compassion and wisdom to ministry couples. This husband-and-wife team offers inspiration on subjects including:

• Family life
• Marriage
• Partnering
• Rest
• Refreshment
• Freedom
• Parenting
• Spiritual growth

Total Quality Life

• Publisher: Wesleyan Publishing House
• Publication Date: 2007
• Pages: 191

Sample Pages: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7

Successful pastor and seasoned mentor Stan Toler invites you to experience TQL—a total quality life. He outlines the four main areas in which you need to achieve higher levels of effectiveness and satisfaction—thought life, physical well-being, asset management, and spiritual life. Loaded with proven principles and practical applications, Total Quality Life gives you the tools you need to nourish, maintain health, and grow in each of these four areas. The result will be increased levels of satisfaction, confidence, and effectiveness at work and at home. You'll see changes in your life—for the better. You'll experience a total quality life!

About Stan Toler

Stan Toler is a dynamic leader, author, and international speaker with more than thirty years of leadership experience. Raised in a rural mountain community in West Virginia, Stan assumed his first leadership role at the age of seventeen when he became pastor of Westside Church in Newark, Ohio. As a dynamic senior pastor, television host, and best-selling author, he has devoted his life to sharing the secret to living a vibrant, purposeful life.